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In the "land" of the pelvic floor where three main specialists,
the urologist, gynaecologist and coloproctologist in
most cases still work separately, but often share patients'
complaints, a common language is quite important to better
understanding what patients and colleagues mean when
they say something. Defining constipation, and faecal incontinence
as well, is a difficult task as patients and physicians
have quite different feelings and opinions on the matter. [More]

In 1994 DeLancey proposed the "hammock hypothesis",
which states that "increases in urethral closure pressure
during a cough probably arise because the urethra is compressed
against a hammock-like supporting layer".
Since Petros and Ulmsten`s concept (1996), minimal invasive
surgery using a mid-urethral support without tension
(tension free vaginal tape-TVT-technique) has been widespread.TVT has been shown to be effective with a cure
rate of incontinence of more than 80%, thus eventually becoming
the reference standard technique.
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Today, hemorrhoidal disease (HD) is considered to be a
typical disease of civilization or lifestyle, and some 70% of
the working population is faced with this problem at some
stage. In most cases, the severity of ailments depends on
how advanced the disease is. Therapeutic treatment of hemorrhoidal
disease ranges from diet to medication. During
the early stages of hemorrhoidal disease, good results can
be achieved with infrared coagulation, sclerotherapy, and
rubber-band ligation. [More]

There have been no new hypotheses for causation of
vesico-ureteric reflux for many years. The aim of this report
is to present a new hypothesis, deriving from the field
of female stress incontinence. In females with stress urinary
incontinence, application of pressure on the anterior vaginal
wall at midurethra with a hemostat restores the funnelled
geometry of the vesicourethral junction to normal,
and continence. [More]